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On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 11:11 +0100, mark westwood wrote: > We have the SHA vision and goal of all being a monoculture in NE... That ceased to be an idea which could be confused with ideas that are not stupid in about 1993. The index event is the general recognition of the World Wide Web. Some people, for instance me, would put the point when it changed earlier - I'd put it at 1969, but this is clearly using hindsight, and it would be unfair to blame people who were not knowledgeable in IT for not recognising it at that point. The index event was the formation of the Internet. The churn and competition of the view alluded to is great for people who like managing change, and like competing for primacy, and therefore want as many changes, and as many takeovers and makeovers, as can be arranged. An IT strategist, in sharp contradistinction to the strategist of a closed source software vendor, would set out to connect whatever came up by providing a common and adaptable and reusable set of underlying mechanisms and some rules - and might indeed have invented the Internet (suite of protocols) for the purpose. -- A